Horseshoe.



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GEORGE J. wALsH, or BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

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4Specification of Letters Patent.

Patenten Jan. 1e, 1917.

Application led Ilecember 28, 1912, Serial No. 739,014. Renewed August 22, 1916. Serial No. 116,389.

To all whom it may 00n001'fn:

Be it known that I, GEORGE J. lVALsH,

a citizen of ,the United States, and resident of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Horseshoes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to horse shoes and its object is to provide in the shoe itself means by which the horse may easily walk on slippery streets especially where asphaltum pavement is used, these means consisting of a front sharpened calk to dig into the ice or asphaltum while'the horse moves forward, oblique intermediate calks with sharp lower edges to prevent side slipping or straddling and rear or heel calks bifureated and having square edges by which the horse may dig into the ice or pavement while stopping or backing. These and other objects and details are more fully described in the following specification, set

forth in the claim and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure l is a perspective view of the horseshoe from its lower side. Fig. 2 Ais a similar view from the upper side. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view.

The present invention comprises a shoe of the usual shape and adapted. to fit the hoof of the horse, being nailed thereon in the usual manner and holes 5 and a groove, G beingprovided for that purpose. It is usual to provide horse shoes in winter with over-shoes to preveit slipping 'on pavements, but the shoe shown in the drawings and hereinafter described is intended for use on slippery pavements such as asphaltum, dispensing with the overshoe and having its forwa rd end'provided with a rounded calk, 7, conforming to the shape of the front of the shoe and having an edge 8, on its lower side. .The edge 8 merges at the side of the shoe into a flange 9, at the outer side of the shoe and which terminates at the heel calks, l0. The latter are bifurcated and have edges 11 adapted to cut into the icev or pavement when the horse At each side of the shoe, between the toe and heel calks is an obli ue calk 12, set at about 45 from the longitudinal center of the shoe, and having a chisel edge 13.` This 'A Ny calk engages the ice or mud on the pavement and prevents side slipping of the hoof The construc-r and straddling of the legs. tion of this shoe affords the horse a pur'- chase on icy or muddy pavements and .pre-

vents the'slipping or sliding of the horse in any direction, while the round sharp calk at the front affords means for'g'ripping the surface of the pavement wheiithe horse is pulling a load or climbing Yhill. When backing or stopping sudden'ithe heel calks are put in use, and ena je the horse to dig into the ice and iiid a purchase, while the oblique calks provide against side slipping. The middle calk 12- V openings are in 'Cobble stonev and wooden' pavements and about car tracks. It is obvious that the shape and position of these calks may be altered-or modified without departing from the essential features above described or the scope of the appended claim. y A

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentis:

A horse shoe of the usual U-shaped configuration having heel calks and having its lower face at the outer edge thereof flanked the shoe,'the edge of said flange at the front of the shoe being sharp and said edge lying in the plane of the ends of the h'eel calks yand thence sloping gradually to the forward sides of the heel calks, and a single fulcrum calk located midway between each vwith a flange which extends continuously 1 from the heel calks aroundthe front ofv heel'calk and the middle of the said sharp- Signed at New York im the, county of ened edge and' having its edge substan- .New York and State of New (York this 14th tially in lthe plane of the said sharp edge day ofDec. A. D. 1912.

of the ange and the ends of the heel calks GEORGE J. WALSH.

d and disposed obliquely to the median line Witnesses:

of the shoe and the forwardedgesl of the 'CHARLES LA RUE, heel calks, and the sharp edge of the flange. JAMES F. DUHAMEL. 

